I assume they also bathe an brush their teeth in Saudi Arabia. Do you want us to stop doing that, too?

The fact that a despotic government has the death penalty doesn't, in itself, mean that the death penalty is despotic.

Exactly. It's not really a useful description of a plot arc.

If you're bound and determined to get it to an extremely small number, and your sample size is ridiculously small (which 1,700 stories is), then sure, you can get it down to 6 plots. You can probably get it down to less than that. Protagonist struggles, and lives. Protagonist struggles, and dies. See how easy that was?

What for? He shot at cops, killing several of them.

There may be times when a taser makes sense, but not here. This piece of shit needed to die.

They waited a long time, and gave him the option to surrender. Two things he didn't deserve, IMO.

If you shoot at people, the only thing you can reasonably expect in response is death.

Except, he wasn't. His stated goal was killing white people and police officers. He was a piece of shit, and the world is better off now that he's not in it.

This asshole was shooting police officers and was holed up. They made the judgment that he wasn't going to be taken alive, so fine, don't take him alive. Seriously, why risk another police officer's life on that piece of shit?

I'm not saying you're wrong, because I don't know, but that doesn't make logical sense. Everything we have ever known has had a cause. We might not know what that cause is, but there has to be a cause there. It may simply be inaccessible to us. If the universe is everything we have ever known, then it's by definition not possible to know what came before it. But that doesn't mean that there was no before. It just means it's imperceptible to us. If you want to say that it makes no difference if there was a before, that's another matter, but it's not the same thing.

That sentence doesn't mean anything. All of the site is intended to provide entertainment, I'd imagine. Why else would you go to the site? But the entertainment being offered is talking to people who want to have hot, sticky affairs.

Their motto was not, "Life is short. Talk to a bot.".

The fake messages are sent to convince the user that the service is useful to them. How is that not fraud?

It's the equivalent of selling magic beans.

I don't see anything that says you won't be interacting with a real person. All the above language means is that what another user might tell you could be complete bullshit.

Exactly. People might not be able to buy that particular book for less money, but maybe they can find a book in the same genre for less money. The only reason someone would be set on one particular book is either a) it's an author they know and enjoy, or b) that particular book got great reviews or was recommended by a friend.

As others have noted, items are priced at what people will pay, or they don't sell. In addition to that, an e-book is worth mroe than the cost of the materials. The intellectual property and skill of the writer figure into the price.

Haw-Haw!

That's just saying that an adult that causes a child to sin is condemned (presumably to Hell). It's not specifically about child molestation, and it doesn't really condemn doing anything to children (other than leading them to sin). If a person rapes a child, does the child sin? I can't see how.